The papers in this volume, originating from a conference in Germany in 2018, "question what deep history is, who makes it, how they make it, and what its political implications are" (p. 249). Through a range of case studies, primarily concerning the Northwest Coast, the authors try to unravel the threads of deep time as seen by "settler colonialism" versus indigenous peoples, exploring the ways in which scientific perspectives tend to downplay, dismiss, and disregard the oral historical knowledge of people who have lived on the land for untold generations in order to take the land from them with impunity. Efforts by "[i]ndigenous communities to protect their lands and their rights are therefore as much about challenging settler society to open itself to alternative ontologies and belief systems ... as they are about restoring destroyed environments, returning alienated lands, and building genuinely respectful cooperative systems of co-management and governance" (p. 135). Philip Deloria's masterful essay comparing the perspectives of Vine Deloria in Red Earth, White Lies (CH, Mar'96, 33-4113) and Yuval Noah Harari in Sapiens (CH, Jul'15, 52-5967) caps the volume with a stinging critique of the ways in which synthetic world histories dismiss indigenous peoples as inevitable losers in the race for the future. Summing Up: Recommended. General readers through faculty.

--L. L. Johnson, emerita, Vassar College

LUCILLE Lewis JOHNSON

emerita, Vassar College